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" The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. "

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" Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like. "

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" There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. "

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" It doesn't take much to make me angry. "

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" A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. "

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" I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. "

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" Obscenity comes from grime. "

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" I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. "

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" The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. "

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" Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. "

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" You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way. "

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" I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. "

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" I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country. "

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" To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' "

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" I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. "

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" Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. "

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" My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. "

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" 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. "

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" Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. "

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" You can only have one aim per debate. "

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" I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. "

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" I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. "

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" The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone. "

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" Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. "

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" I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. "

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" To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? "

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" I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. "

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" I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. "

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